Photo & Video Galleries

Gallery and Bus Terminal

Part 2 Project 2008Tereza StastnaCzech Technical University 166 34 Praha 6 Czech RepublicAccording to my concept the volumes of the gallery originate in the subtraction of all the bus station plan areas from the total mass of the building-up estate. Then the volumes adapt to sunlight by declining the external walls and their internal spaces are arranged in the levels of the reflected shades. Thanks to this process the services of both functions have been interconnected since the very beginning. The gallery has been a waiting room for the bus station and the free spaces of the bus station have been a place for exhibitions. Tereza Stastna

The diploma project task was to design a gallery and a bus center. The student explores the possibilities of exhibiting pieces of art in connection with a traffic facility and the mutual influence of these two functions. The student places the gallery programme in three odd cones whose plan is a negative imprint of a bus center operation. The volume of the towers is formed by light. The design allows for a full-value functioning of both programmes and as an impressive work of art increases the value of the area.Tutor(s)

2008

The task was to add a gallery to the bus terminal and to interconnect them so that the design could support both functions and evaluate the given place. An up-to-date and novel view of the two joint operations (architectonically and functionally) was expe

The volumes of the gallery originate in the subtraction of all the bus station plan areas from the total mass of the building-up estate. Then the volumes adapt to sunlight by declining the external walls and their internal spaces are arranged in the level

DESIGN – WORKING SCHEME
I tried to reduce the areas for transport and so found a free place in the groudfloor for passengers and visitors of the gallery. The output is a connection of the lower and groundfloor where all of the operations are mixed. Dur

the upper perspective

The annalyzed area is in the developing part of Prague – Smichov on the place of the existing bus terminal Na Knizeci. At the present time the functioning of the bus terminal uses the whole devisable area and there are even stations for urban transport an

THE TRANSPORT ANALYSIS
The design of transport system respects the former operation systém of the bus terminal. There is a change because the stations for urban mass transportation are only used and the long-distance bus stops are cancelled. The funciona

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perspective from south-east

LIGHTING
To all areas of the gallery shines a sun light from above through the holes between the declinated walls. The exhibits are illuminated from above. For reduction and diffusionof the sunlight there are a movable sun-blinds placed under the roof w

MATERIALS
The only visible material is a raw concrete which will be raised or coloured in white. The surface of the gypsum ceilings is modified in the same material. The bus terminal areas are adjusted in the same raw concrete with the grey-colour traff

CONSTRUCTION
The reinfoced-concrete shell is a structural system of all objects. Inside of them the steel trusses are fastened to the external walls. The trusses load all of the internal volumes. The external walls are without windows. The internal space